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This has me stumped. I know Dntel and Gibbard are not touring soon or making new material but how come this band seems to be unknown while at the same time widely known?

What I mean is I can say The Postal Service to friends and they'll have no clue what I'm talking about; but EVERYWHERE on the internet people seem to like them. Metallers on last.fm will have Postal Service in their charts, "Such Great Heights" is the most played track on last.fm for billions of years. Hell, even Brainlove AND Wrightley like them.

yes, but for "reality" domination you need more than the internet.
alot of people do see music as the most important thing in the world and therefore don't search that far for it- they need the adverts, or at the very least interviews in the media.
i've never even seen one of their videos on mtv, nor did i even know they even know they were existed until i just randomly came across a thread on DiS.
Also, importantly, NO SEX APPEAL.

where he said that the success of the postal service (death cab have still not had a release sell as many copies as give up) actually caused a lot of problems for him and for death cab. he was saying that, as they weren't a touring project and as the album took a few months to take off, it overlapped with death cab starting to tour transatlanticism. he said a lot of places were trying to get the postal service to play but were getting knocked back, and this impacted on death cab trying to get bookings / radio play.